Domestic Notices. 349 



Seedling Plum. — I send you for exhibition a few plums, taken from a 

 seedlino- tree in the garden of Reuben Langdon, Esq. of tliis city, and 

 called "Langdon's Seedling." It appears to be a valuable variety; and 

 the fruit which I now send you is the last upon the tree, and by no means 

 as large as the average. I also send you a i'cw scions from the same tree. 

 Verij respectfully, John ./I. Tainter, Hatiford, ^^vg. 30. 



We received the specimens of seedling plums safely, but not in season 

 to exhibit them at the rooms of the Horticultural Society on the 31st. 

 They are certainly a very handsome fruit, very large and of good flavor, 

 much better than the majority of blue plums, and wortliy of cultivation. 

 P. B. H. Jr. 



Seedling Chrysanthemums and Cacife. — I have raised a number of chry- 

 santhemums from seed, and had some forty or fifty plants in flower last 

 fall, of various colors and forms, some good and some indifferent, but none 

 very superior. I have likewise, after many unsuccessful attempts, this 

 year succeeded in impreo-nating the May fly cactus and the Aurantiacum 

 with the pollen of the Night-blooming cereus, one bud on each plant. 

 They are now swelling finely, and 1 hope to raise something extra from 

 these seeds. — Yours, &fc. J. B. Garber, Columbia, Pa., July, 1844. 



Hovey's Sredling Strawberry. — There are many fine qualities about this 

 variety which recouimend it for general cultivation. The stem is tall and 

 stiff", raising its trusses of large fruit above its luxiu'iant foliage, and it is 

 also an abundant bearer. This variety has put in the back ground every 

 other exhibited in our Horticultural rooms, this or any previous season. 

 The berries are very large and richly colored, and if it has not so ex- 

 quisite a flavor as some of the newly imported or other fancy sorts, it will 

 require an experienced connoisseur to detect any essential inferiority. — 

 (A". E. Farmer.) 



Grapes. — We have been favored, by the politeness of J. S. Skinner, 

 Esq., with specimens of grapes grown in the garden of Mrs. George Law, 

 of Baltimore. The vine, from which they were gathered, was brought 

 from Madeira, and now flourishes and bears profusely in the open air, 

 exposed to the weather at all seasons. The specimens were fully ripe 

 and excellent ; in appearance and taste they very much resembled the 

 Catawba, possessing the samjc musky flavor which is so agreeable in that 

 variety. We are not aware that it ripens earlier in Baltimore than the 

 Catawba, and if not, we should be strongly inclined to suspect they were 

 identical. — P. B. H. Jr., Ed. pro tern. 



The Qi/een's County Horticultural Society held an exhibition of Fruits 

 and Flowers, at Flushing, L. I., on the evening of the 14th of August, 

 which was numerously attended by strangers and visiters. Among the 

 articles presented for exhibition, was a plant of Gloriosa superba, in flow- 

 er, and Acliimenes longi flora, rosea, coccinea, and grandiflora, from the 

 garden of T. R. Valk. Also, a specimen of the Baltimore White Core 

 Watermelon, from the garden of G. G. Howland, and pronounced superior 

 to any variety cultivated in that vicinity. The Society propose liolding a 

 great Fruit and Dahlia exhibition in September next. (Flushing Journal, 

 JIug. 24th.) 



The Season in Pennsijlvania. — We have a fine prospect for fruit this 

 season ; apple and peach trees are bending under the weight. We have 

 had no apples of any consequence since the cold winter of 1835, many 

 trees being killed, and all injured more or less, the city papers attributing 



